Too much change I can't avoid, too many annoyances

Hi,

just wanted to leave feedback, as I also want to take a break from Cursor.

I really liked Cursor in the beginning. I set it up for myself perfectly. Then the update notifications started… and I just want to work, I don’t want to get notified, that there is an update.

Once in a while I clicked on install and then stuff changed. Why would you change the keybindings? This is unbelievably annoying. I use Cursor to work, then I want to press ⌘ ⇧ S to save as a new file. This works in the whole system. I always did that, this always worked, now suddenly it does some Agent stuff. I started to hate to read the word Agent because it was always something unexpected, unwanted.

Ok… let’s change the keybindings.

Now another update, ⌘ ⇧ L doesn’t work anymore. This always added cursors to every selected line, I had this keybindings since I was a Sublime user, before I becamse a VSCode user. Now Cursor just did something new, it opens the sidebar…

Ok, let’s change that too.

Now I want to lower case a whole block of text, ⌘ K ⌘ L, obvisously doesn’t work anymore, let’s change that too.

Aaaaand MacOS 26 had some major problems, let’s reset the Mac, so it’s usable again.

Sht… Cursor doesn’t have a backup feature, now let’s setup everything again and we have the keybindings problem again :roll_eyes:

But this is all settable. THE WORST problem is, when you add something, I don’t even know how to remove.

I like a minimal window, now there is this sidebar, I can’t remove anymore. I never had that, why can’t I remove it? I searched everything in the “View” menu, I know all the keybindings for everything I need, I don’t need a sidebar always visible. And this “Agents and Editor”, I never wanted that and I can’t even remove it. I right click on it, there are two options, I can remove both but neither of them removes the thing, I right clicked on, this is objectively not a good UX.

And why does the sidebar open chat everytime I start a new project? I am developer, not a vibe coder, if I need the chat bar, I would open it. Just remember the last setting or give me a setting to turn it off…..

I always hated it, when companies force me to do or use their stuff as they want, if they don’t give me even the option to get rid of something.

I am actually sad that I paid for Cursor 1 year in advance, I was very happy in the beginning, I didn’t expect it to add stuff I can’t even hide, it makes no sense to me, I wish I would have paid monthly, big mistake.

For now I will change back to VSCode, it feels like, I can change ANYTHING in vscode + the settings (.json) are synced/saved, I didn’t expect anything else from Cursor (but I was wrong).

These are the biggest annoyances I could remember instantly. I am pretty sure, there are so many more annoyances which just make no sense at all, why would you hack some hardcoded buttons and sidebars, why no options?

I will keep Cursor installed and will check it once in a while, I hope enough people thing similar and Cursor will do something about it :flexed_biceps:

Sorry to rub salt in the wound, but they added it specifically for Mac - it’s not in Win. :thinking:

They added the Agent display mode as the first mode in the list, which is why after upgrading to 2.0, Agent mode opened for everyone, which does not suit even me, despite the fact that I write 99.9% of the code through an Agent. That’s all you need to know about UX management in this project.

They don’t even write update changelogs, and when they do, they’re incomplete.

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weird that Cursor is not writing any changelogs, I am writing my commit messages via AI all the time, it’s so easy and accurate nowadays :joy:

My MacOS pro is showing the buttons overlap of cursor UI. Just wondering did they done any unit testing before releasing it. Poor UX and unusable Cursor.

I agree with all the points and overlap bug. Its a major bug making it unusable. Will probably switch.

i figured out i can easily go back and disable updates: